Okay, we are rolling again.
Where are we? We're at the mercy of a 14-year-old.
Where are are we, Mac?
We're here at the Mercy of a
Fourteen-Year-Old.
Well we're floating out on
this lake and Gary is in the back
and he is as
he is paddling he is
telling me something about how to
steer the canoe but I am not
listening very carefully because I
am so concerned that things are
going to tip over in a minute that
I'm mostly
petrified in the front seat doing
a little paddling so
that he thinks I'm working.
We move out to a spot where he
says there should be fish here.
Well, jeez, I didn't realize that.
Well, he said, well, we're here to
fish. I said, I see the fishbowls,
but yeah, you're sure you can fish
out of a canoe?
Well, of course you got to fish out
a canoe. So we started throwing our
lines out.
And about the third cast,
something hit my lure like
wham!
And I thought, oh my
gosh, what do I do now?
Try to land? You can't land a fish
in a canoe, for heaven's sake.
Surely it'll tip over.
Turning the crank and
the fish is coming in,
and Gary in the back, he's all
excited, you got one on, it looks
like a good one, I said, it feels
like a good one and I brought it
here, and I pull it alongside,
and it is, it's about a 28 inch
northern, I mean it's a big
northern, I say to Gary, what am I
going to do with this?
Gary said, don't pull the boat,
don t pull the canoe.
I said what are we going to do?
He says, I will paddle the shore, So
we carefully paddled ashore.
He got out. Took the fish off the
hook, put it on the stringer,
we're back in, and we went back out
into the
lake.
And as we went along, I said, this
is kind of a neat deal, isn't it?
He said, well, of course it is.
I said it's easy to paddle?
He said sure.
And it's not hard to learn how to
steer this thing sitting in the
back, and we'll let you practice
that tomorrow, which I did.
So that went back to Madison,
we caught a few fish.
I had a whole new idea about
canoeing.
I said to Ruth, what would you
think, my wife, what you think
if I bought, why would you want a
canoe when you've got a boat?
I said, well a canoe is kind of neat
and the kids might, we had three
kids, they might like it
too. And she said, I think your dad
thinks they're not safe.
I've heard him say that too, I said.
So I bought exactly
the same canoe that I had practice
with up north,
a 17 foot Aluminum
And by that time we owned our farm
and we had a good size pond
on it.
And I took the canoe down to the
pond and I don't know
what the kids were, maybe eight,
nine and 10, something like that,
10, 11, 12.
And I said, now you guys can
go out here and canoe anytime you
want, but you've
got to wear a life vest.
And before you even get
in the canoe, I want to tell you
something about how to operate this
thing.
And I showed them how to paddle.
And then I said, now I want each one
of you to take the canoe by yourself
out in the middle of the pond
and see if you can tip it over.
So you know what the
characteristics of the canoe are,
and by golly, they had a stand
on the side to tip the canoe over,
of course, which
I would so much want
my dad to see.
But he wasn't there.
And the only problem was
one day Steve, the photographer in
the family, decided to
go out to photograph some pond
lilies.
And if you're sitting in the
back of the canoe without
any weight in the front, the front
ends up pretty high and
you shifted the center of gravity to
a dangerous place, especially
if you are leaning over the side
trying to photograph a pond lily.
So he tipped over.
And soaked his camera,
which was not a good thing.
But he also learned to never do
that again.
That's the only time that anybody
tipped over. Well, another day,
the kids now were having a lot of
fun canoeing.
They'd go out there singly or
together.
And Susie and, I don't know,
maybe it was Jeff or a younger
brother, they were out in the middle
of the pond,
and lo and behold, a little
snake comes crawling around
across the Susie lets out
a blood-curdling scream, of course.
They did not realize that a
nest of garter snakes had
found itself in the
one end of the canoe.
And so they had a boat full
of little snakes,
varying in sizes from a foot long,
I suppose, to a little longer than
that. And so what are you gonna do
with a bunch of snakes when you're
out in the middle of the boat,
of the pond, and you
don't particularly like snakes
anyway?
So Jeff, bless him,
he knew what to do.
He took the paddle, he's flipping
snakes out into the water.
And so that's what they did.
They got rid of all the
snakes.
So over the years, that
canoe has, we've
done many, many canoe trips with
it. It looks like it's been through
the war. It's all scratched up and
dented up and bent.
Still doesn't leak, not a
hole in it.
And we still have it, hangs up in
the shed. I haven't been in it for
years, but it.
Has a lot of memories.
And I then had to
confront my father.
You don't confront your father
generally.
But there are times when it's
necessary to point out
to someone who has the power
in the family that he was
wrong.
And I said, Pa,
canoes are safe.
He said, are you sure?
I said yes, I am.
And we never talked about it again.
In your canoe adventures, did you
think about the fact that
the Indians traveled everywhere
by canoes?
Especially when we talk about
the boundary waters, I will tell you
that.
Well then
let's talk about those kids and
their showers.
Well, we bought our farm
50 years ago now,
in 1966,
and there was a
well there, an old-fashioned
pump in the well,
and that's all the water there was.
The house had burned,
and we were trying to turn the
granary into a cabin, but
there was no indoor plumbing, there
was no running water in the house,
the only source of water we had.
Was this well.
We did have electricity that we'd
put in, and we had
an electric pump jack that
moved the pump rods
up and down, so we had water, but
not very much water.
And we had to carry water, of
course, to the house.
The kids were a
little bit skittish now as they were
getting older about bathing in
a big old wash tub.
In fact they hardly fit anymore.
And I don't know where I came up
with the idea but I
thought maybe we could figure out
a way of making an outdoor
shower.
That would be kind of interesting.
Well how are you going to make an
outdoor show?
I thought about that.
My neighbor at the time in
Madison ran a hardware store,
Ellis Hardware. I said more
I want you to help me with something
I'm thinking about." He said, now
what are you trying to make?
I said, I'm trying to an outdoor
shower. He said I don't think
there's such a thing possible to
make. I said here's the idea.
Let's start with a 14-quart
pail. You got some of those around
here? Yes, I do.
Well, I'll tell you what, you take,
and he was pretty clever.
I said you cut a hole in the bottom
of this, you mean ruin a good pail?
No, you're not gonna ruin it.
Cut a hole on the bottom on this
14-court pail, And then I
want you to put about a
foot or so of garden
hose, fasten that
in there so that it doesn't leak.
You know how to do that.
I don't." He said, yes, I can do
that, and I said, the other end of
the garden hose put a
little garden sprinkler thing,
the kind that you would have on a,
if you're going to sprinkle your
lawn or your flowers, attach
that to the other.
He said.
What are you working on?
I said I am making a shower.
He said, you're all right.
But it was.
So I now go back to the farm with
my pail with the
hose coming out of the bottom and
the spigot on the bottom,
the things used to water
the flowers and stuff, had a little
schnauzle on it so you could turn it
off and on, which is very
important.
So then the kids and
I went down in the woods and we cut
three long poles,
locust tree poles, brought them
up.
We set them up as a tripod about
eight feet high.
Wired the haywire at the top
together, set it up as a tripod, and
then I put a little pulley up
in the end, and I ran a
little rope, a clothesline rope, up
through that pulley and down to
the handle on this pail,
and you could pull
up the pail and I put
a nail in
one of the legs
of the tripod so you could wrap the
rope around that.
So you lower the pails, fill it with
water, pull it back up,
tie it around there, Crawl under
there. Stand under it,
turn a little spigot, and there you
had a shower.
I mean pretty pretty ingenious
wouldn't you say.
So how do you do that then?
How do you not freeze to death
because the water coming out of the
pumps about I don't know 50 degrees
or 45 something like that.
So we would warm up some water on a
cook stove, we had a wood cook stove
with a teakettle, warm up the water
there, put some cold water in the
pail, put some hot water in it
so it's just nice, Pull it up, crawl
under there. Well then, Susie
and my wife said, well,
geez, we're not gonna take a shower
standing out here in the buff in the
open. You're gonna have to put
something around that thing.
I said, why? There's nobody around.
Well, you guys are all around.
So I've wrapped the canvas around
the thing and
now it's complete.
Interestingly enough,
I said, if
you're going to take a shower now,
there's got to be at least three
showers for every pail.
They said, what?
I try it and see, and it
works. You don't need a whole lot of
water to take shower.
I was keenly interested at
that time to helping the kids
understand that water is pretty
darn precious.
And I grew up without very much
water, and I thought it'd be
interesting for them to realize
that, yeah.
You can take a shower with not
very much water.
Then I struck the most
wonderful thing idea I'd come
up with in a very long time
was an incentive for doing
good work that was different than
a 50 cents.
And I said, if you work hard
today in the garden, you
will be eligible for a whole
pail shower.
Wonderful, I mean, I did not
think that would be so well
accepted. But they work so hard.
To get an opportunity to have the
whole pail shower.
And that's still the big joke of the
family. Have you done enough to
earn a whole pails shower yet?
I still have the pail hanging
up in the shed.
And every time we look at it,
the kids and I, and they're scarcely
kids anymore, they will
recall when
dad put up the
pails shower and we
worked hard to have a whole pale
shower.
People at the age 12, that's why I
just love that story.
Oh
They just stuck some kind of
cord with them, I don't know.
I mean, I don't know where I came
up with the dumb idea, but it sure
paid off, and for
years that's what we had.
I couldn't afford to put a well in
to have a decent system,
and I tell you
the truth, I'm happy that we didn't,
because, and this may sound cruel,
but I really wanted my kids to
experience something, some of what I
did.
And we cooked on a wood stove,
wood stove heated to place,
we had to carry the water, We
had to be careful how much we used.
And so on.
And did they like going to the fire
room?
They did. They loved it.
They did, they loved going to the
farm.
They have more farm stories to tell
than you could ever imagine.
And I started keeping a
journal in 1960,
I kept it before that, but a special
journal for the farm in 66.
I have 50 years of journal entries
that tell you about all
the stuff the kids have done.
And as they've grown up and
have now had their kids try
experience what they did.
One of the things they want me to
do, I may do it, is to
reconstruct the whole pale shower
so that the grandkids and now the
great grandkids can experience
it.
We'll go down there tomorrow morning
and do that.
Eww!
If you can get through the boundary
waters, you can have a whole pale
shower.
Hand me my book, please.
There's a very special
place in northern Minnesota
where
my kids and I have
one time or another gone for 25
years, and that's the Boundary
Waters.
It is a million acres
of pristine lakes
and forests,
Minnesota right against the Canadian
border. It is a
place where there are
bear and wolves that howl.
There, it's a place where
there is no sound
pollution, there's no
light pollution, it's
place where it's quiet,
it is a place for contemplation,
it a place to discover who you
are, it's the place to get in touch
with nature in a way that,
well, my farm comes close,
but that's such a special place.
At one time we were up there and we
stopped at a at a resort before
paddling in, and Steve said,
well, do you have cell phone
connection? I need to call back at
the office.
And the person said, well, of course
we have cell-phone connection.
It's a wonderful connection.
You drive 20 miles down
this road, and you'll see a gravel
pit there. You turn left, go up
the top of the hill, and point
your phone to the east,
or point your to the west, and
it's a pretty good connection.
You'll get one bar if the weather's
right.
Well, I say that facetiously because
that's on purpose,
that it's a place where there's
not that kind of interruption.
And so we have these wonderful
memories of going
up there. Steve and I, for 25 years,
Susie and Jeff less
so, I find I've written a whole book
about our experiences up there,
to help people realize that
sometimes,
I firmly believe this, It's
necessary for each one of us.
To get away from all of the
electronic stuff that
dictates who we are these days
and go to a place like the
Boundary Waters where there's not
even one bar on your cell
phone and rediscover who
you are.
Sounds a little philosophical.
Maybe it is, but that's one
of the reasons that I have
gone there all these years.
We stay in a tent on
the of a leaf and
we...
So much enjoy
any rainstorm
that comes by.
They scare the bejeebers out of us
sometimes because the fierce storms
come rolling out of Canada.
But to be in a tent at night with
the rain dribbling on the
canvas takes me
back to when I first experienced
that. I was in the army, a little
side story.
And we were on bivouac, meaning
we were out And my,
my, uh,
Pup tent mate was from New York
City and it was raining.
It started to rain.
And he says, what's that noise?
I said, that's rain.
Oh my gosh, he says.
Are we gonna be drowned?
No, we're not being drowned.
This is dangerous, he said.
There might be lightning.
I mean, this poor kid was beside
himself. He spent the night
sitting in front of the pup tent,
holding his rifle.
Thankfully, nobody gave us any
bullets.
He sat there with his rifle, I don't
know what he's gonna do with his rifles
against the rainstorm.
But I said, go back to
sleep. I love the
sound of rain on canvas.
I mean, it's just wonderful.
He wasn't so sure about
that.
So the Boundary Waters is a place
where we do that.
And one of the things that I do at
the Boudary Waters is keep a
journal of
our adventures there.
And I want to read just a couple
of entries to
give you some flavor for that.
And, for
instance, people...
This is not in my
journal, but people often ask
me, my colleagues at the university,
they say, why do you do
that?
And why do go there?
And facetiously, I say, I
need to hear the call
of the loon to get through
another year. And I think, oh, jeez,
what is with this guy?
And someplace I wrote,
it's good for one's soul to
spend some time each year
in the boundary waters.
And everybody should spend a
little time cultivating
their soul.
That lost two thirds of the people
who were listening to me, but
I still say it.
Here's an entry from the
17th of August in 1984.
Supper time tonight was dried hash
brown potato summer sausage and
dried apple sauce.
I paid a dollar ninety five
cents for the apple sauce and it was
terrible.
The worst.
After supper, Jeff and I took the
canoe out on the lake for a couple
of hours of fishing,
but we hurried back when we heard
thunder.
Now back in camp,
Jeff is writing in his journal
and Steve is building a campfire.
The thunder is coming closer.
What a beautiful place, from the
loon calls echoing across the
lake to the magnificent
furs and white pines in
blue-green water of the lake.
The boys are excellent campers.
Willing to share in toting wood
carrying water from the lake and
not grumbling at this washing time.
The two of them take turns portaging
the canoe by camping in one
place and then making day trips from
our permanent campsite.
The portage loads aside from the
heavy 17 foot Grumman
canoe are light.
The campfire is snapping and
crackling as the thunder booms
in the background.
Very quickly it has become too dark
to write, but I
must take time to jot down a few
lines about my
feelings about being here
in the Boundary Waters at
this isolated campsite
on a beautiful lake.
First of all,
it gives me a chance to be alone
with my two sons without
any interruption.
Everyone's life is full of
interruptions these days.
Secondly...
It is the sheer beauty of the place.
Tonight, thunder rumbles
in concert with the loon calls.
A most interesting set of
contrasting sounds, both
so old and primitive
that it's difficult to imagine
their beginnings.
And as we sit around the campfire,
my sons and I would reflect
on what this place was like
100 years ago.
When the voyagers with their
canoes came through
here, back and forth,
carrying furs, camping
on these lakes, sitting by
campfires just as we were sitting.
And I said to myself, what do you
think they were talking about when
they sat around the campfire?
Did they talk about balloons?
Did they think about the beauty of
the area? We don't know that.
But we can, we can guess that they
might,
and to realize how old this place
is.
Thousands of years old these
boundary waters these lakes that
have been formed and their beauty
has been that way for year
after year seen by so
many so few people really when
you think about it the French
explorers of course through here the
voyagers as i mentioned and
then the canoeists who come there
now and
then on saturday august 18th
i wrote we're on loon lake
We're up at 630.
Last night the storm clouds that
darkened the sky and thunder that
grumbled and rumbled presented
us with only light rain as
we crawled into our tent.
The rain turned into a dawn
pour, waking us up to check
the tent windows.
We soon fell fast asleep to
the steady pounding of rain on the
tent canvas, an altogether
pleasant sound.
And then in 1991,
in July, I wrote...
Steve and I just finished the
breakfast of pancakes, the shake and
bake type, which really hit
the spot.
A light breeze from the southwest is
keeping the mosquitoes away from our
campsite, which is a rocky
outcropping facing west.
Yesterday.
A fierce wind blew all day,
spreading white caps across the
lake. We remained in camp,
patiently waiting for the wind to
subside, but it never did.
Around mid-afternoon, we tried to
launch the canoe for some fishing,
but we failed.
We couldn't push off without waves
washing over the sides of the canoe.
At one point in our effort, after
a huge wave hit Steve's
backside, he yelled, Abandon
ship! As he scampered out of the
canoe onto the nearby rocks.
In the early evening, the wind began
subsiding, and the waves
turned into a light chop.
We launched the canoe and paddled a
mile or two up the north shore of
the lake,
fishing, but we caught no
fish.
The wind continued howling all
night, splashing waves against the
rocks below our campsite.
It was a great night for sleeping.
And so the message is...
And the stories are told
over and over as
the family comes together to
think about the beautiful places
where we have been and we've been in
a lot of them but it's
hard if you're interested in nature
and you're interesting in wolves and
bears and dare I
say it red squirrels
people said to us what do you do
about all the bears stealing your
food It's not the bears that
steal our food, it's the red
squirrels. And one of the great
stories and pictures I have is
Steve running through the woods with
a rock, chasing after a
red squirrel that has one of our
snicker bars that's just as big as
the squirrel.
Somehow the red squirrels have
developed a taste for snickerbars
that must be brought there by the
campers year after year.
So we have these frivolous stories
to tell.
We also have these wonderful,
wonderful stories to talk.
One year, Steve
invited along his friends.
Who was a deputy sheriff in
Sheboygan County.
And Rick said to me before we
left, he said, now I understand
there are bears up there.
I said, yeah, there are some.
We don't see them often, but there
are. He says, now Jerry, he says,
now I want to show you, he
took me aside. He said, now I got a
.45 here.
Should I bring the analog?
I've got this nine millimeter
Beretta. You'd think that would be
better than the .45.
I looked at them, I said leave your
guns home. You don't need any guns.
Rick and Steve and
I are camping
on the shore of this lake.
Rick is resting in his
tent, and I'm cooking.
I am the world's worst cook.
I make no bones about sharing
that.
But that evening, I
must have been cooking something
that was more than
attractive.
Steve is behind me fishing in the
lake. I'm cooking and
this big...
Bear is smelling my
cooking.
I can see it coming down the trail
sniffing its way and
I whispered to Steve I said Steve
turn around and Steve looks around
oh jeez and this
bear it just keeps coming and
Steve said what what are we going to
do I said let's not do anything
but I want Rick to see this.
And I said, Rick,
supper's ready.
And Rick opens his
tent, he looks out, and
from here about 10 feet away is this
black bear. Rick goes, ooh,
he's back in his tent and zips it
up.
Later that the bear turned around
and ran away. I mean, we didn't see
it again. All night long though,
next morning I said, Rick, how'd you
sleep? Oh jeez, I didn't sleep at
all. He said, that bear circled my
tent all night long.
I heard it walking around my tent.
I thought it was a red squirrel.
It wasn't a red Squirrel.
It was a bear.
Those are the kind of stories that
we have that are just wonderful.
One more.
This time Jeff and I made the
mistake of going into the Boundary
Waters without a map.
We've been there for 10-12 years,
and I said, Jeff, we don't need a
map. We know where we're going,
right?
So we are lost.
We stopped at a, going in, we didn't
buy the map, stopped at the ranger
station, ranger's station.
I'll draw you a map on an
envelope. Do not take a ranger map
on a envelope into the boundary.
There's a million acres there.
That's what I got, this ranger' map
on envelope.
So Steve and I are,
Steve and are, this is Jeff.
Jeff and I are canoeing around.
We're trying to find a portage, and
jeez, you can't find a portage.
They're hard to find anyway.
And we're canoeing along,
and I said, Jeff, I don't know where
we are, and he said, I know where we
are either. Well, just keep going.
We might see something.
And we were going along, and we come
upon an island.
And I said Jeff, look over
on the island and hear four
young women
sunbathing in the nude.
And Jeff was in college then, I
said, Jeff.
Look over, look over to the left.
Jeff said, whoo-hoo, you got the
binoculars dad somewhere.
I said, no you don't need binocular.
I said now act like we know where
we're going. So don't look, just
paddle. So we're gone by and we're
about, I don't know, 20, 30
yards away. We're paddling along and
these women jump up and they're
holding me blanket up in front of
themselves and we paddled by and
Jeff did get a little high.
Son of a gun, if it was a dead end,
I'm gonna turn her on, come back!
This time they were ticked!
Oh, they were mad!
Ha ha ha ha!
I said, Jeff, we gotta pedal a
little faster this time!
Anyway
Those are some Bowdoin Water
stories.
Oh my.
I know we will talk
about this in the next interview.
What is this about being
on the water that makes
your thoughts go somewhere else?
Is it just the isolation?
I think it's, to me
it's rather a mystical mystery,
which sounds like,
I don't know what I'm talking about,
which is probably true.
It, I dunno, it's
something that, for me
it is an enormous attraction.
Maybe it's because water was so
scarce.
And when you come to, for when I
grew up, and to be at a lake, oh my
gosh, this is wonderful, look at all
that water.
And in the boundary waters, we could
dip it out of the lake and we boiled
it, of course, but it was right
there, you know, all the water you
wanted.
Something along those lines.
It's also restful.
To me, the sound of
water lapping on
a rocky shore in
a rhythmic kind of way is
wonderful.
It is just a
wonderful sound.
It's similar but
different from the sound.
Of water in a river going
over a rapids.
It's a similar kind of sound.
The interaction of rocks and water
is really kind of
interesting.
And then how that sound
changes with the
intensity of the wind where sort of
a gentle message
to a shouting story
of history and
the past and all the rest of it as
the waves come splashing
in. You wonder.
How did the voyagers manage
with their canoes when the weather
was this rough and we're not
able to manage with a 17-foot
Grumman canoe that's built like a
tank?
I can't do it anymore,
but we did it so many years.
It was such fun.
Canoes, there's something,
I should add this to it, there is
something special about a canoe in
its relationship to water.
Because it barely touches
the surface.
It does not interrupt the water.
It's just barely on the surface,
like kayaks.
It just floats right on the
surfaces. Different from a
boat with a 90 horsepower engine
on it that's tearing through the
water and disrupting everything.
The canoe just floats
along the surface.
It has an entirely different
interaction with the water.
Kind of peaceful and quiet.
Which allows, one,
the time to reflect and
not worry about whether or not you
can run out of gas or run over a
stone with your fast-moving boat.
You can't help but be anxious
when you're tearing across the lake
at some great
miles per hour when you
are canoeing.
It's a whole different story.
One quick story that comes to mind
again about the
boundary waters and we're canoeing
along.
Steve and I were coming out one year
after having been in a whole
week and we were loaded heavy.
We've got all our equipment in and
Steve is in the back.
He's steering and paddling.
I'm in the front. I'm looking for
stones, a lot of stones in the
water, in the boundary water.
And I say left
right stone ahead.
That's
foggy, misty, beautiful morning,
the sun wasn't up yet.
And I say, Steve, stone ahead left.
Bigger stone.
Steve, the stone's getting bigger.
Stop.
It's a moose.
There was a moos feeding on the
bottom. The moose,
just like some kind of a miracle,
comes out of the water, and there's
this whole big moose!
And Steve says, what do I do?
I says, jeez, I don't know, but I
wouldn't do anything if I were you.
And so we stood there, I stood
there. The moose stood there and we
stopped patting. We're looking at
this moose.
If the moose had just
four or five steps ahead, it could
have dumped us.
But it didn't.
It looked us over and said, I don't
think this is worth the energy.
I don't know what it thought.
Turned around, walked up on
shore and shook itself like a
dog. I mean, what a
experience that was.
Never forgotten that.
Oh, gosh.
Can you hear them?
That's really nice.
So, that's about what I know for
today.
That's great.
Thank you.
Anybody into our group.
Well, there must be some kind of
current, because the tides must
lead up up on top of the downdraft
or something like that, or roam it.
Because it just doesn't wait.
Thank you.
The anti-limping filter on
their engine.
It's going to cost you a little
extra.
Put on my bill.
That's good.
Watch that route on the way back.
What? Watch that root.
Put on the anti-tripping filter.
That's it, it's all you're going to
get.
Careful here.
Oh,
I'm going the right way.
Why do you want the camera angle?
You guys even?
Go backwards.
No.
You're not on the grid, are you?
I am. Oh man, I told you.
Daddy!
I don't have a lot of call for boats
out where we are.
This is how you do it.
Oh yeah.
Google Tourism System.
I figured that wouldn't be
appropriate.
Daddy, no!
Yeah, here's a look.
Alright, you guys ready?
Yeah, yeah.
You braced? Yeah.
I am.
Y'all!
Why did you just do that?
Hold up.
Why did he do that.
Yes, sir!
That's a good one.
The food's still out there.
Thanks for
watching!
I don't know.
It's water wet.
Burgers?
Oh, poor Jerry.
Leaving him all by himself.
Bring it up the rear.
Good, good.
Ty still sleeping?
Yeah! Yeah, that's what I went
to check, but Shawn is there too
sleeping, so I didn't want to.
Oh, okay, all right.
And, of course, it's dark.
There so he doesn't...
That's right, there's no windows.
See you next time.
Lumping my way.
Another successful adventure.
Lumping My Way.
Hey Mom.
Yes? That chicken is somewhat
frozen still.
Is it okay if I make the spaghetti
tonight? Or do you have your...
No, I have no idea.
In the honor of the future weapon.
This grandfather bought that
for us.
He will be happy to show you
how it works later.
No, I don't need to know.
That's good. Ho, ho.
That's water.
This is water.
Yip!
That's a weird job.
I like that one.
Not really.
Well, there's 70.
Where's she going?
Did you go get your baby?
Get your little boy? He's supposed to
be awake by now.
He should be. It's almost four
o'clock.
It's gonna stay up all night.
He was up at quarter to six this
morning and I was coming out of the
bathroom and he
had a look on his face like who is
this office guy?
Make it swing, Nick.
Swing!
We're going to carry that.
Are you OK?
OK. We've got this marker.
We're up a mile ago.
And we're going over the program.
I feel the man, like,
uh, didn't realize it was about to
move.
First, I mean, it's a
lot of water that comes out,
lands in the deck.
Oh!
I just don't know if those clouds
are moving right now.
No, but if I spread it out.
No, I get that, but I mean, even if
you speed them up, oh.
It looks like it.
How are you?
I would go that way.
Don't cross the road.
Yeah, I don't know if that's going
to work for this.
It's just kind of gray back there.
This is not my first rodeo.
No, you don't get it.
I believe you.
Hope they didn't say that in there.
We're going to have a really good
time.
I know.
Okay.
Well let me just get a couple other
things then. Okay.